AURENWOOD / Project journal
Made for the long view.
A collection of illustrative outdoor environments where material, planting, water, and light create a deeper relationship with home.
Every project on this page is an illustrative concept created for a fictional demonstration. No real clients, properties, or completed works are shown.
Before & after
The same garden, two lives.
Drag the handle, or use the arrow keys, to compare the existing site with the finished design.
Illustrated concept · not a record of a real property
Illustrative concept · Water · Botanical
Stillwater Residence
A long reflecting pool draws the eye to a sculptural Japanese maple, with a fire bowl and lit limestone steps for evenings outside.
Programme
- Reflecting pool with auto-fill
- Limestone terrace and floating steps
- Specimen Japanese maple
- Fire bowl terrace
- Integrated low-glare lighting
Still water doubles the evening light; the maple was placed so it reads from the living room and the pool.
Design note
Illustrative concept · Outdoor living
The Hearth Garden
An outdoor kitchen and dining room under a timber pergola, framed by old olive trees and drifts of ornamental grasses.
Programme
- Fluted limestone kitchen island
- Timber pergola with pendant lights
- Dining terrace for ten
- Olive grove and grass meadow
- Rill-fed planting edge
The pergola is oriented for afternoon shade over the table and evening sun across the island.
Design note
Illustrative concept · Hillside · Mediterranean
Olive Terrace
A hillside terrace that steps down toward the view, anchored by an ancient olive and a plunge pool with warm step lighting.
Programme
- Stepped limestone terraces
- Mature olive transplant
- Plunge pool with stone coping
- Pergola dining room
- Path and step lighting
Each level was set to keep the horizon in view from the house while hiding the slope's retaining walls in planting.
Design note
Architectural details
Where craft shows.
The moments that make a landscape feel finished: a lit tread, a fluted stone face, a tree placed exactly where the eye lands.
Specimen maple, uplit from two anglesStillwater Residence 
Mirror-still water surfaceStillwater Residence 
Fluted limestone islandThe Hearth Garden 
Grasses soften the terrace edgeThe Hearth Garden 
Under-tread step lightingOlive Terrace 
Uplit olive at the thresholdOlive Terrace
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